Ezekiel 35:4
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
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“I will turn your cities into ruins, and you will become a desolation. Then you will know that I am the LORD.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate, and thou shalt know that I am the Lord.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I will lay thy cities waste, and thou shalt be desolate; and thou shalt know that I am Jehovah.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“Thy cities a waste I make, and thou art a desolation, And thou hast known that I <FI>am<Fi> Jehovah.”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ezekiel 35:4 — 7 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Exodus 9:14Otherwise, I will send all My plagues against you and your officials and your people, so you may know that there is no one like Me in all the earth.
- Exodus 14:4And I will harden Pharaoh’s heart so that he will pursue them. But I will gain honor by means of Pharaoh and all his army, and the Egyptians will know that I am the LORD.” So this is what the Israelites did.
- Ezekiel 6:6Wherever you live, the cities will be laid waste and the high places will be demolished, so that your altars will be laid waste and desecrated, your idols smashed and obliterated, your incense altars cut down, and your works blotted out.
- Ezekiel 35:9I will make you a perpetual desolation, and your cities will not be inhabited. Then you will know that I am the LORD.
- Ezekiel 35:12Then you will know that I, the LORD, have heard every contemptuous word you uttered against the mountains of Israel when you said, ‘They are desolate; they are given to us to devour!’
- Joel 3:19Egypt will become desolate, and Edom a desert wasteland, because of the violence done to the people of Judah, in whose land they shed innocent blood.
- Malachi 1:3but Esau I have hated, and I have made his mountains a wasteland and left his inheritance to the desert jackals.”
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